On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Elijah <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to find a way to access the SAT from an app I'm building
> but nothing has been forthcoming. Now this question has been asked on stack
> overflow before, the answer being that its not possible to access another
> app that hasn't exposed an explicit API. I think that since the SIM card is
> kinda part of the phone hardware, it should be possible to send commands to
> relevant portions of the SAT. Almost all 'dumb' phones can 'see' it meaning
> that its based on a set of very primitive commands. I believe that surely
> there must be a hack for this.

As you have read, it is possible, but there is no public API for this. And it
will probably not be made available:

http://source.android.com/tech/security/#sim-card-access

Even if you manage to hack it on a certain phone you can't make it work
reliably on different devices.

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